Elliott Abrams

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Elliott Abrams, State Department Press Conference as Special Envoy for Venezuela (March 2019)

Elliott Abrams (born January 24, 1948 ) is an American lawyer , author and diplomat who served as Republican in foreign policy positions for the US Presidents Ronald Reagan , George HW Bush , George W. Bush and Donald Trump . Abrams is considered a neoconservative and a protégé of billionaire Sheldon Adelson .

Life

His political career began as a speaker for congressmen and senators - as such he tried at times to influence the Democrats Henry "Scoop" Jackson and Patrick Moynihan , who temporarily sidelined him as negotiator for Micronesia - but he was given "human rights" under Ronald Reagan “And the Central America policy and rose under George Bush Sr. to the special envoy of the president and a member of the national security council . In this position he became an advocate of the far-right putschist Efraín Ríos Montt and other dictators in Central America, including Montt's successor in office Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo , and of what they saw as an anti-communist war: torture , disappearances , rape , mass shooting and displacement .

Elliot Abrams was involved in the Iran-Contra affair in various ways - in his capacity as head of department in the State Department - and pleaded guilty for it. He was sentenced to two years probation and one hundred hours of community service for misleading Congress and lost his license to practice law in Washington DC. In 1992 he was pardoned by George HW Bush .

Under George HW Bush, Abrams was the United States' Deputy National Security Advisor . Within the party, Abrams was initially noticed as a critic of Donald Trump, but was then involved by him. During the coup attempt by Juan Guaidó in Venezuela at the end of January 2019 he was appointed by Mike Pompeo as the US special envoy for the "restoration of democracy in Venezuela " on January 25, 2019 in order to implement the "regime change" in Venezuela in accordance with the US Support government. According to the Guardian , Abrams was aware of the Venezuelan attempted coup against Hugo Chavez in 2002.

Think tanks and private matters

He was a senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations think tank until 2019 and was a board member of the National Endowment for Democracy think tank from 2014 to 2019 .

Elliot Abrams was married to Rachel Abrams (died 2013), daughter of Midge Decter and stepdaughter of Norman Podhoretz . He is of Jewish origin and is involved in politically conservative Jewish organizations.

Web links

Commons : Elliott Abrams  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign Policy. Elliott Abrams, prominent DC neocon, named special envoy for Venezuela , politico.com from January 25, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c Eric Alterman: The Career of Elliot Abrams - Under Reagan he helped instigate proxy wars in Central America, now he is Trump's special envoy for Venezuela . In: Barbara Bauer (Ed.): Le Monde diplomatique . No. 3/25 . TAZ / WOZ , March 2019, ISSN  1434-2561 , p. 15 .
  3. ↑ Tower report exposes practices in the Iran-Contra business , abendblatt.de of February 28, 1987
  4. ↑ Elliott Abrams bristles at Rep. Ilhan Omar's 'attack' for his Iran-Contra role , eu.usatoday.com of February 14, 2019
  5. ^ Walsh Iran / Contra Report - Summary of Prosecutions , fas.org
  6. ^ Syria attack. Americans think Obama's war course is wrong, neoconservatives are hardly heard . zeit.de from August 28, 2013, p. 2
  7. ↑ One of the band of robbers . Horst Schäfer on the appointment of Elliott Abrams as US special envoy for Venezuela. (accessed on March 21, 2020)
  8. ^ Ed Vulliamy: Venezuela coup linked to Bush team. Specialists in the 'dirty wars' of the Eighties encouraged the plotters who tried to topple President Chavez , theguardian.com, April 21, 2002
  9. ↑ Expert Bio. Elliott Abrams is on leave. , cfr.org, accessed March 14, 2019
  10. ↑ Executive Profile. Elliott Abrams , bloomberg.com, accessed March 14, 2019
  11. ↑ On Leave: Elliot Abrams , accessed March 14, 2019
  12. ↑ Who is Elliott Abrams and why is Ilhan Omar attacking him? , jpost.com from February 15, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Abrams, Elliott
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pompeo, Michael Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer, author, and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1948